[Joseph Ripley]

From the JPEG I had posted with it, the original showed the resolution, data and etc. In the experiment, redoing into a 1920×1080 factor, everything increased in the cross comparison analysis which also made it bigger. Then using the new MP4 as a source to do in m2v may have a difference.

[Joseph Ripley]

Learning this myself. On two movies I am experimenting with: “Story of Ruth” and “Solomon” which are very old movies, each about 2 and half hours long, I used the Bitrate Calculator which gave me VBR 2-Pass Bitrate: Max 43,600 AVG 18,550, and MIN 7,400. I added 5 minutes to the total time for safety of margin. When I switched to DVDA 6.0, it showed with both, I only used 80% of the disc, but it wanted to recompress both videos and burned to the BD-RE which I tested on my television. Ruth played fine but Solomon would not play at all.

Reading various posts on AVC vs m2v, combined with Sony stating 9 hours can fit on a 50 Gig Blu-Ray disc, now trying the experiment on using Sony AVC to render both videos, but customized the template from 16,000,000 bits per second to the minimum from the Bitrate calculator of 7,400,000 bits per second. Did notice on the computer while rendering to avc the picture quality appears to be sharper than when I rendered in m2v format. However, will not know for sure until after I render both, import to DVDA 6.0 to place on a 50 Gig BD-RE and test on the television itself. If both will play, then I know the two I have created for the exposition should work as well as the time is the same as those old movies.

[Joseph Ripley]

Actually another responded from Australia and sent me the following link: https://www.dvd-hq.info/bitrate_calculator.php
The total time with all six videos is 5 hours 45 minutes and 17 seconds. Using the bitrate calculator after converting it all to minutes and specifying the Blu-Ray Disc size it gave me the following information that I have to do with each video.
Rate Control 2-Pass VBR
Maximum Bit Rate: 42,100 kb/s
Average Bit Rate: 14, 250 kb/s
Minimum Bit Rate: 5,700 kb/s

Since under custom template for M2V that I have been using the info is in bytes per second. So all I did was change the numbers and checked the 2-pass box for VBR.

I will have to admit on this one video which is 1:59:30 it is taking 14 hours to complete just rendering the video. I will be comparing the size from the first render without doing that. The first time on this particular video the size was 17.8 GB. This should compress this particular video to a much smaller size and have to do the same using the same numbers on the other 5 videos. Then test on a 50Gig BDRE.